Drunk driver escapes horrific smash with minor injuries

A drunk driver who was hurled from his car as it flipped multiple times during a horror crash in Russia reportedly survived the incident with relatively minor injuries.

Dashcam video of the smash, which happened in Siberia's Tyumen region last Tuesday shows the driver of the silver Mercedes swerve from the wrong side of the road to avoid oncoming traffic - but he loses what little control he had when the car veers too far and runs off the bitumen at a steep angle, causing the vehicle to roll.

Debris can be seen flying off the sedan as it flips, over and over, throwing the driver out through the window in the process.

He lands in the vehicle's path, but miraculously the car, still rolling, misses him by mere metres.

According to Russian media, the intoxicated motorist sustained soft-tissue injuries to the head and heavy bruising.